Stocking-supporter



(No Model.)

. A. M. ZIEGLER.

STOCKING SUPPORTER. No. 376,464. Patented Jan. 17, 1888.

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STOCKING-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,464, dated January17,1888.

Applica ion filed October 12, 1887. Serial No. 252,109. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ALFRED M. ZIEGLER, of Boston, county of Suffolk, andState of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inStocking-Supporters, of which the following description, in connectionwith the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on thedrawings representing like parts.

This invention has forits object the prod uction of a durable andefficient garment-supporting attachment or clasp, being an improvementon the Patent No. 367,492, dated August 2, 1887, granted to me.

In accordance with this invention a metallic loop adapted to be attachedto a strap or equivalent is bent or shaped to constitute arms andpresent a fabric-receiving slot the opposing sides of which are free toyield to a limited extent,the extremities or parts of the said armsbeing bentto present inclined or wedge or cam surfaces, and havingco-operating with them aslide or loop which, acted upon by the garmentto be held in the said receiving-slot, causes the arms to be movedtoward each other and the said slot to be contracted upon the garment,the construction and operation of the parts being such that increase instrain upon the garment results in tightening the hold of the attachmentupon the garment.

As herein shown, my improved attachment or clasp is represented as madefrom wire, the

necessary separation of the said arms.

My invention consists, essentially, in a garment-supporting attachmentor clasp consisting of a piece of metal bent or shaped to form arms freeat one end and leaveafabric or garment receiving slot, the said arms ator near their free ends being'provided with inclined or wedge surfaces,combined with a slide or loop free to slide on the free end of the saidarms, and bridging the fabric or garment receiving slot so that pressureor strain applied to the said slide causes the arms to be posibodying myinvention; Fig. 2, a rear side View of the attachment shown in Fig. 1;and Fig. 3, a vertical section of Fig. 2, taken on the dotted line x x.

The loop A, preferably of wire, but which may, if desired, be of sheetmetal cut into properform, is bent orshaped, as hereinshown, to presenta loop having three sides, as 2 3 4, to receive a strap or equivalent,in usual manner. This loop is further bent or shaped to constitute arms,as b b, and leave between them a fabric receiving and holding slot, as0, having opposing and preferably converging walls or sides 5 6, tofacilitate the reception of the fabric between the said arms.

The arms at or near the lower end of the fabric receiving slot are bentoutward or away from each other, and have applied to them a slide orloop,(herein shown as a shell or case,) composed of a disk, 9, and acap, 10, secured together by the overturned projections 12 of the 'cap.

The slide or loop receives within it the outwardly-turned ends 7 8 ofthe said arms, and is free to slide for a limited extent on the saidarms in the direction of their length, the said slide bridging, as itwere, the fabric-receiving slot, so that when forced downward by thestrain of the garment or fabric upon it it acts to draw the said armstoward each other to close the fabric-receiving slot and bind the fabricfirmly between said arms. The loop is also so made as to limit theseparation of the said arms.

I wish it to be understood that I do not desire orintend to limit myinvention to the particular form of the loop or its arms so long as theyare left free or independent at their ends, so as-to be positivelyclosed by means of a slide, as described; nor do I desire or intend tolimit my invention to a slide or loop of the exact shape shown, by whichto cause the said arms to be forced toward each other to operate in themanner specified; neither do I de sire to limit my invention to theparticular bend given to the wire or metal to constitute the free arms.

It will be understood that the shape of the arms and of the slide orloop and their relative sizes will be such that as the slide or loop ismoved vertically on the arms the said arms will not and cannot pass eachother, nor under strain can they pass or twist one behind the other.

I am aware that a stocking-supporter has been composed ofa piece of wirebent to form parallel holding-surfaces, the wire at the lower part ofthe parallel arms being bent to form an eye, the said parallel armsbeing surrounded above the eye by a band which is sufficiently large notto interfere with the elasticity of the arms or wire and the eye, butsmall enough to prevent slipping off over the eye, as described inUnited States Patent No. 314,889. Such construction I disclaim.

I claim The herein-described garment-supporting attachment or clasp,consisting of a piece of 20 metal bent or shaped to form the arms freeat one end and leave a fabric or garment receiving slot, the said armsat or near their free end being provided with inclined or wedgesurfaces, combined with a slide or loop free to slide on the free end ofthe said arms and bridging the fabric or garment receiving slot, wherebypressure or strain applied to the said slide causes the arms to bepositively moved one toward the other to close the said slot, as and forthe purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALFRED M. ZIEGLER.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, B. DEWAR.

